Meanwhile, apart from a front page column from Nevada by Joel Connelly (apparently, not everything that happens in Vegas stays in Vegas,) this morning’s Seattle P-I looks more like a PSA than a newspaper, continuing its (laudable) campaign against artificial butter flavor, and issuing a dire warning to pedestrians not to get hit by cars.

Good advice, but does anybody actually work at the Times or the P-I over the weekend, or does nothing ever happen around here on our days off? Sheesh.

Chimpmeister, a wingnut’s wingnut, once again shows you nutcases how it’s done in the big leagues:

But in private conversations with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert last week, the president all but disowned the document, said a senior administration official who accompanied Bush on his six-nation trip to the Mideast. “He told the Israelis that he can’t control what the intelligence community says, but that [the NIE’s] conclusions don’t reflect his own views” about Iran’s nuclear-weapons program, said the official, who would discuss intelligence matters only on the condition of anonymity.

The threatening radio transmission heard at the end of a video showing harassing maneuvers by Iranian patrol boats in the Strait of Hormuz may have come from a locally famous heckler known among ship drivers as the “Filipino Monkey.”

Immediate hope for HA Happy Hooligans! One of their own gave his/her all for the advancement of medical science, and, unlike humans for whom application is years off, many of them can immediately benefit since the match would be el perfecto!

For you 24 fans and lovers of torture – a new book is out about one of your favorites, Abu Ghraib:

“The detainee is then laid flat on a medical litter, and another litter is placed on top of them producing a sandwich effect,” he wrote in Torture Central: E-mails from Abu Ghraib. “The two litters are then tightened together with ratchet straps, creating a vice. The detainee remains crushed between the litters for one hour, with the guard checking every 15 minutes to ensure that the detainee still has a pulse.”

And stupid Marine tricks too:

Torture is not the only wrongdoing alleged in the book. Keller writes that the facility was full of children, most of whom had been denied due process. One had been arrested for running toward Marines while trying to retrieve a soccer ball.

“We have two 12-year-old children who were arrested by Marines and have been in Abu over 9 months,” he writes. “Their arrest record (written by the arresting Marines) simply reads ‘Reason for Arrest: Because we were bored.’“

Baghdad: #1: Gunmen killed an Iraqi Appeals Court judge and his driver in western Baghdad on Monday, raking their car with bursts of gunfire before speeding off, security officials said. The ambush took place as the judge was being driven to work and was passing through Mansour neighbourhood, they said. “Judge Amer Jawdat Al-Naeib was killed and his driver was wounded in the gunfire but died soon afterwards,” one security official said.

#2: two Iraqi soldiers were killed in Zafarania suburb, southern the Iraqi capital, the Iraqi news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI) said. The soldiers, who weren’t wearing the military dress code, were shot by militants on the way back to their homes to spend their usual weekend.

BAGHDAD – Iraq’s parliament passed a benchmark law Saturday allowing lower-ranking former members of Saddam Hussein’s Baath party to reclaim government jobs, the first major piece of U.S.-backed legislation it has adopted.

Traveling in Manama, Bahrain, President Bush hailed the law as “an important step toward reconciliation.”

“I wouldn’t come back to my job because of this law,” Sunni parliament member Saleh Mutlak said. “It’s humiliating to the people. You have to condemn yourself, and then be investigated, and then you could be killed [by someone] after going to the committee.”

The vote itself showed how divided Iraqis remain on the matter. Barely 150 members of the 275-seat parliament attended the session.

The new prime ministers of Australia and Poland also have promised to remove all of their soldiers—600 and 900, respectively—which would leave the foreign troop strength under 6000. (Right now, the U.S. has about 160,000 troops there.) Says Brookings’ Michael O’Hanlon: “The military mission in Iraq is increasingly just a U.S.-Iraqi enterprise.” He adds that we can expect less help as time passes, “even given improvements on the ground and a new President.”

Why no headlines on the Democrat Super Delegates who can disenfranchise my people?

“If you also look at the fact that African Americans and hispanics are under represented in Congress, State houses, or the party establishment, then it shows that these white elites are given more attention by the party. This all fits a party’s pattern that thinks you, the taxpayer, is too stupid to know what to do with your own money and need Government to tell you how to do it. The Democrats are here saying that you are too stupid to know what to do with your own vote, so they want to dilute the black vote with super delegates.”

In its first couple of weeks after it returns tomorrow, the House is likely to take up contempt-of-Congress resolutions against White House Chief of Staff Joshua B. Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet E. Miers for their refusal to appear before Congress for questioning about the 2006 removal of nine U.S. attorneys, Democratic leadership aides said.

A new New York Times/CBS News poll shows the Republican presidential race completely upended with Sen. John McCain now leading solidly across the country. McCain is in front with 33%, followed by Mike Huckabee at 18%, Rudy Giuliani at 10%, Mitt Romney at 8%, and Fred Thompson at 8%.

Well – I am amazed. Puddy is for Obama. Maybe now people will believe that Obama can bring together disparate constituencies. Puddy is the republican cheerleader (troll) on this site that I usually disagree with – but I am for Obama or Edwards – so we actually agree here. Will wonders never cease – what is next?

Will we agree to get out of Iraq with Barrack? Will we agree to get rid of tax cuts for the rich (over 1 million/year)? Will we agree to restore the Justice department and the civil right division? Will we agree on cutting the deficit by reducing out of control military spending and earmarks?

Since correctnotright spoke up maybe you can help Half-wimp & half-chicken (YLB) with his debate style. I already stated what me and the buds think about Obama. Why does this surprise the 16%ers here? Are your heads so far up Hilary or Edwards ASSes you are looking ath the Two Americas or Johnson and the CRA?

So correctnotright not take the Puddytest and prove yourself. No one else is man-up to do it!

Why did Mike Steele get the special democrap treatment? Why did Lynn Swann get the special democrap treatment? Why did H Carl McCall get the special democrap treatment?

Clinton and Edwards gives cover to white democrats who are subconsciously racist who otherwise would have voted for Obama if he were white. When a white person tells me they like Clinton, chances are I’m looking at a racist. And I love how everyone is falling for Clinton’s “experience” lie. According to Hillary Clinton, if she is to be believed about how experience is everything, Bush, if he could serve a third term, would be the best person to be the next President of the US.

Doesn’t the savage racist attacks from Camp Clinton (Clinton Crime Family anyone) remind everyone of the 60s civil rights era where racist white sheriffs and police chiefs would attack docile black men and women? Instead of water hoses they use the media, their henchmen and code words.

Personally, if we do a family tree I bet someone in the 16%ers here is related to Eugene Bull Connor.

It looks like the people out to get Obama and smear him are listed on the paid link (the real Barack) just above HA. They (the smearers) claim to be conservatives and say Obama is not fit to be Senator or President (I happen to disagree)…care to comment on what the conservatives are saying?

Here is a headline: “Zbigniew Brzezinski, who as Jimmy Carter’s Secretary of State oversaw the funding and fueling of al-Qa’ida in Afghanistan to fight the Soviets” “His most senior adviser is Zbigniew Brzezinski, who as Jimmy Carter’s Secretary of State oversaw the funding and fuelling of al-Qa’ida in Afghanistan to fight the Soviets. “What’s a few riled-up Muslims?” he asked. Obama is also advised by Richard Holbrooke, who was in charge in the 1970s of shipping weapons to the totalitarian Indonesian military so that they could systematically slaughter a third of East Timor’s inhabitants. And as a finishing touch, he has on board Dennis Ross, who led the recent assault on Jimmy Carter for stating simple facts about Israel’s abuse of the Palestinians.”

“quid pro quo” should be a matter of fact, not a matter of innuendo. Timing, for example, is important. If I am a Congressperson, and I do something that is helpful for my constituents, and if as a result of my acts they are pleased with my performance in office ansd elect to legally contribute to my campaign, that’s not ‘quid pro quo,’ that’s just life.

If, on the other hand, large sums are received by me from one or more of my constituents PRIOR to performing some act that benefits them, then a charge of ‘quid pro quo’ can at least be thought appropriate.

Did John Murtha performa any acts in return for prior contributions that might be considered quid pro quo? We don’t know, but it didn’t sound like it from the article. As usual, you give us nothing but some vague propagandizing.

Do you even know what earmarks are? If you think they are adding project to the federal budget or to spending bills, you’re wrong. But what they really are is “easily searchable in Google.”

@52: Puddy I read the NYT article. Really not much in it – gee, big trends in weather are inconsistent is the only take home message in the article. Almost no actual scientific information in the article – but a lot of “opinions”..

The bottom line is that almost all scientists who actually study global warming are sure that it is happening on multiple levels:

Glaciers are retreating (at an alarming rate) Polar ice caps are melting (both ice caps – not just the arctic as mentioned in the article). Average temperatures are increasing

There is also scientific consensus that global warming is generated primarily by human activity. The only debate is over the extent and possiblility for mitigation.

Daddy Love: The New York Times is your liberal newspaper of record. If they said it everyone usually believes it. I just delivered up the “facts” as seen by the times. How many NY Times articles were quoted here when the Iraq conflict was really going bad?

On earmarks, Nancy Pelosi said it and I’m using her definition. If you don’t agree with her earmark definition, maybe just maybe you should call your Marin County and SF city friends and demand she be demoted.

You guys just can’t get over the fact the biggest porker in 2007 was John Murtha…

Come on Correctnotright: The Antarctic ice cap is increasing. NASA said it too.

“The only debate is over the extent and possibility for mitigation.” – The first time I’ve seen that comment from you…

Mr. Tierney wrote. “When the Antarctic sea ice last year reached the highest level ever recorded by satellites, it was pretty much ignored.”NASA satellites measured the highest level of Antarctic ice. You still discount it?

I can’t see any recent articles where the Antarctic ice is melting except for a 2% area, 98% of the area is increasing in ice.

Weather Channel founder John Coleman recently said: “Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming,” Mr. Coleman wrote. “Their friends in government steered huge research grants their way to keep the movement going…In time, in a decade or two, the outrageous scam will be obvious.”

“Incredibly, if you are interested in Antarctica temperature trends from the present back to 1982, the region has cooled. If you go from present back to 1966, the region has cooled. Like it or not, over the past four decades, and during the time of the greatest build-up of greenhouse gases, Antarctica has been cooling!”

These two schools got together and published in the Science, found that the ice sheets of Antarctica, far from melting, actually are expanding by some 26.8 billion tons of ice a year. Yet why did Al Gore ignore this. Only the far tip is melting, a little bit.

@65 And the ice cap at the northern hemisphere has been melting at record pace. As global warming happens, certain regions are EXPECTED to become cooler because of the shifting currents that will occur as the climate changes (Europe is another place that people think might cool). But the temperature of the planet as a whole will continue to get warmer at a rate that an overwhelming majority of climate scientists believe can only have been caused by the effects of man.

Correctnotright: Could it be the Northern Hemisphere is warming and the Southern Hemisphere is cooling? Why did it snow in Iraq and Saudi Arabia last week for first time in what 60 years and it was ignored by the liberal MSM?

Or, as your friends want to postulate it’s all or nothing…

You want to have a debate on Obama and see where we agree. I want to have a debate on life. No one else dares touch questions in post #32 or headless lucy’s diatribe on 9-2005. Goldy, Geov, Lee, Paul and Will are still MIA. Only Darryl had a set of cojones and commented.

Yet you all want me to discuss and comment on Nixon’s Southern Strategy. Sorry fellas debates are two-way streets. If you don’t drive down mine I surely will pass by yours.

A 30-year satellite record of sea ice in the two polar regions reveals that while the Arctic ice has melted, Antarctic ice has increased in recent years. However, due to dramatic losses of Antarctic sea ice between 1973 and 1977, the total sea ice in both hemispheres has shrunk on average over the last 30 years.

The difference between him and you, though, is that he will accept these facts to get a better understanding of what’s going on with the world while you will scream about a “liberal bias” every time you’re confronted with any fact that doesn’t fit into your paranoid outlook.

@72 Those scientists were not questioning whether Gore is right to say that global warming exists and is caused by man. They are questioning his beliefs over the severity of the problem. That’s where the real debate lies today. It IS possible to overstate the problem, but it is not possible any more to claim that no problem exists.

“The penalty for being morbidly obese has gone up. Ditto for schizophrenia and recent breast cancer. And anyone with multiple sclerosis, severe autism or antibiotic-resistant staph infection will now be automatically rejected.

“Those are among the hundreds of changes in the latest Washington Standard Health Questionnaire, a … mandatory health-screening test taken by more than 100,000 state residents each year before they can buy individual insurance coverage. The test is designed to weed out the sickest applicants ….

“This is the first substantial revision since … 2000 …. It’s shorter … and supposedly better at reflecting actual claims data. But the upshot is applicants who might have aced the earlier survey might flunk the new version.”

Roger Rabbit Commentary: Private health insurance companies are like banks that won’t lend you money until you’re out of debt and don’t need it anymore. They want to insure only healthy people who don’t need health care, while leaving sick people to dangle in the wind. Another fucking failure of free enterprise to meet people’s needs.

Sure is a strange coincidence that the cost of Bennett’s basketball Taj Mahal is exactly equal to the Seattle School District’s construction budget. Maybe he thought he could get that money if he give the kids a few t-shirts?

It’s a wonder anyone at all will give you health insurance since rabbit season is coming up. I’m encouraging all my wingnut friends to get out there and participate this year! As a result, the lines at Joe’s (why did it drop the G.I.?), Big-5, Wades, and all the other gun shops in town are out the door and around the block!

For all you HA Happy Hooligans who’re interested in joining in on general principles, pay heed:

Field dress your rabbit

Always field dress your rabbit immediately to greatly reduce your risks. Keep everything clean. Do not use dirty water. Keep the carcass away from mud, dirt, twigs, leaves or other contaminants Use a clean stick to hold the carcass open. Use a clean knife. Wear thick latex or thick rubber gloves. Remove the head and feet of your rabbit, cutting at the ankles. Holding the back skin of the rabbit with your fingers make a cut through the skin and over the back, but not into the meat. Peel back the skin of the rabbit, or hide, in both directions with your fingers. Take care to not let the fur or hide touch the carcass. Remove the complete skin of the animal, including the tail. Remove the complete entrails of the rabbit using one of these methods: Remove the entrails by hand. Cut open the abdomen, reach inside and remove all internal organs. Remove the entrails by squeezing. Apply pressure from the bottom of the rib cage while moving your hand down to the rabbit’s anus. Repeat this process until you can feel the entrails loosen. Be careful not to burst the bowel or intestine. Doing so will spoil your meat. Spread your legs, and hold the rabbit by the front legs. With the rabbit facing you, flip the rabbit down with moderate pressure. Don’t flip the carcass around too hard, or you might be wearing a hat of rabbit entrails. The entrails will exit the rabbit through his anus. Let the body hang and cool down for a little while. You can also wash it. The carcass should be maintained at a temperature not exceeding 4 degrees Celsius (39 degrees Fahrenheit) Cover the carcass and hide in salt.

The chain started in 1952 with one man selling military surplus supplies from a tent in a field. The ad hoc business quickly grew and became a major Northwest retail chain. But the company says it hasn’t sold military surplus supplies in years and is changing its name to reflect that.

“We are behind the times,” said Shannon Burley, spokeswoman for the store soon to be known as Joe’s. “We have been focusing on selling high-end and quality outdoor gear for years. The name is not reflective of what you’d find inside.”

Of course, I also found a few pages out there of people complaining about how they heard some rumor that they changed the name because of anti-military sentiment and won’t shop there again. Sometimes, you can’t win.

Lee: The difference between him and you, though, is that he will accept these facts to get a better understanding of what’s going on with the world while you will scream about a “liberal bias” every time you’re confronted with any fact that doesn’t fit into your paranoid outlook.

Sorry Lee, for someone who claimed to not visit threads… It was correctnotright (is this the morphed rightequalsstupid with a softer gentler side?) who didn’t accept the 400 scientists who said the ecogorbasm is a scam when I put their names on this board. It was the 400 scientists who said the earth has been warming for the last 300 years so what happened over the other 200 years before the industrial revolution? I asked him on this. He rejected all this. And of course him and you being 16%ers naturally stick your fingers up each others ASSes to support each other! Then he today for the first time posts “The only debate is over the extent and possibility for mitigation.” This is a great moderation of position. He’s getting closer to me for a change instead of digging his heels. It was Pussy who said where’s China and India. Well now they’ve come around too. He never raised wither of them in his argument.

Again Lee you missed the data: “These two schools got together and published in the Science, found that the ice sheets of Antarctica, far from melting, actually are expanding by some 26.8 billion tons of ice a year.

“Incredibly, if you are interested in Antarctica temperature trends from the present back to 1982, the region has cooled. If you go from present back to 1966, the region has cooled. Like it or not, over the past four decades, and during the time of the greatest build-up of greenhouse gases, Antarctica has been cooling!”

@88Sorry Lee, for someone who claimed to not visit threads… It was correctnotright (is this the morphed rightequalsstupid with a softer gentler side?) who didn’t accept the 400 scientists who said the ecogorbasm is a scam when I put their names on this board. I asked him on this. He rejected all this.

So do I. There are a number of reputable scientists who feel that Al Gore is over-hyping the problem, but there are practically none who agree with you that man-made global warming is not happening at all.

Then he today for the first time posts “The only debate is over the extent and possibility for mitigation.” This is a great moderation of position.

How so? When has he posted the opposite?

As for Antarctica, there are definitely competing studies over whether it has cooled or warmed over the past 40 years, but again, you don’t seem to understand how that’s irrelevant to whether or not the earth as a whole is warming.

@89You democrats claim not to be racists, yet you used racist tactics in all three races.

Post some links. For every link you come up with, I’ll match it with 3 links of how Republicans have used racist tactics in recent years.

Piper Bill Schneider said it on CNN January 3rd 20:55 after the Iowa Caucii. Looks like CNN took down the video but I had the words cached.

BILL SCHNEIDER: They’re different. The Democrats are moderate. Only about 16 percent of them call themselves “very liberal.” There’s a cliche that only liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans show up. That’s half true. Republicans are very conservative. Almost half of them say they are “very conservative.” But Democrats are pretty moderate voters.

Lee: So do I. There are a number of reputable scientists who feel that Al Gore is over-hyping the problem, but there are practically none who agree with you that man-made global warming is not happening at all.

Where did I say it’s not happening at all?

Link

URL?

Citation?

Time and Date Stamp?

Good luck searching, cuz racing stripe wearing Half&Half(YLB) has been posting what I have always said. God is working his pre-Revelation work.

Lee: As for Antarctica, there are definitely competing studies over whether it has cooled or warmed over the past 40 years, but again, you don’t seem to understand how that’s irrelevant to whether or not the earth as a whole is warming.

@88 We know CO2 is a “greenhouse gas” that traps heat in the atmosphere. We know burning fossil fuels puts CO2 into the atmosphere. Those who can add two plus two naturally conclude that burning fossil fuels is, at a minimum, not helping the climate. As for the rest of you, well, that’s what dunce caps are for.

@93 That’s funny. I thought you were referring to the 16% who approve of this chickenshit Congress, which so far has failed to stand up to Bush on anything whatsoever. In light of the new definition, you can definitely put me down as a 16%er … AND PROUD OF IT!!!

Half&Half@108: Nope they weren’t Imhofe’s people. He had 50-75. If you read your “study” :”What we still don’t know is the total mass change [over that period], because we don’t know how much extra snow has fallen there,” Shepherd said.”

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